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Guys, I just got an email cluing me into something that we all need to be made aware of. Kevin Burge’s most recognizable account, Shoeless-joejackson, has been switched for the first time in over 6 years. His new name is queencity-sportscards and it can be found here. Be sure to add this seller to your list, as this is actually Burge himself.

Guys, just wanted to give you a heads up that if you see something by LarryHolmesSickness, its actually one of Kevin Burge’s accounts. One reader, Joseph was searching for peopleschoice7373, another one of Burge’s many accounts, and eBay directed him to this new switch. Keep this in mind when you are bidding on eBay. Not that most of Burge’s fakes arent completely obvious, but just a heads up.

Jeff from I Am Joe Collector has started up a new blog that definitely deserves my and our consideration. Much like the gents from Hobby Kings who started up an exquisite patch auto blog for 2008-2009 Exquisite cards, Jeff is starting it for 2009 SP Authentic. This will be the definitive database of cards that will protect us from cards like this. Kevin Burge and his cronies have made a living selling fake SPA cards and the like, and this will be our evidence to nail him to the wall. With Wolverine recently getting booted from eBay, here is the chance to make a dent in the number of fakes that go undetected after release.

Need more convincing? Here are the two signatures next to each other. They dont even look remotely close. Fake on left, real on right.

As you can tell, the slant of the real autograph is much more to the right and much more pronounced. The fake isnt even slanted. Also, notice the pen thickness of the fake, versus the real. Lastly, the complexity of the real signature is that so Burge is unable to replicate it. PSA didnt even bother to notice before grading this card.

Burge also has a number of graded PSA 10’s on his screen name, which makes me question how PSA is really paying attention to his scams. I have received numerous reports from different PSA experts stating that they make arrangements with their biggest clients to assign more 10’s than not, and after seeing how Wolverine 24 and Burges people crank out 10’s, im not surprised if this turns out to be true.

Regardless of the graded 10’s, im not as concerned as I am with the number of Fake RPAs he has gotten through. He has a fake PSA Todd Heap one up as well, and according to the people who collect the rookie premieres, Heap was never made in the original set.

I sincerely hope this is fake slab, for their sake. This auto is 100% fake, and as we can see, it has been graded by PSA. I thought it would only be a matter of time, but now its pretty obvious that either PSA has a bunch of amateurs, the fakers are now creating their own slabs, or someone cut a deal with the devil.